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Quote Originally Posted by Roto13 View Post
Mario 64 wasn't a collect-a-thon. You collected stars and coins. That's it. BK threw jinjos, jiggy pieces, notes, eggs, feathers, crystal skulls (or something like that), honey combs, and lots of other garbage.
Those last ones were just power ups though. It's not like you had to collect every single one in the game. But you make a good point, that's one hell of a lot of extra crap to worry about. Presents, oranges, gold bars, golden crocodiles, acorns, worms... oh smeg I'm about to recant the entire game in a single paragraph :P
And even the Jinjos are just the BK equivalent of Mario's Red Coins anyway. There's a lot of stuff, but they're mainly power ups that you don't really have to go out of your way to collect as they're scattered around the level anyway. It's just the same as collecting magic bottles and hearts in Zelda, except there's different types. DK64 was more of a collect 'em up due to the ridiculous amount of banana collecting involved, I'll concede, but I won't concede that Mario 64 was a better game than BK.

But on the one hand, you could argue that Final Fantasy does nag you. What if you miss one piece of magicite in FFVI? Or a magic spell? Or the mime job class in FFV? You've got gaps there that'll annoy you anyway, which is no different from in BK.